Caller Makes Stephen A. Smith Rethink Who’s Actually Responsible for ICE Chaos
Smith was nearly convinced it was Trump’s fault until Keith from New York raised a “very poignant issue.”
Happy Thursday, readers. It’s been another eventful day in the news cycle.
A resurfaced Bernie Sanders video from 2015 is drawing fresh attention for his comments on open borders. But before we get to that, Stephen A. Smith had his eyes opened on air, prompting him to reconsider who’s really responsible for the chaos surrounding immigration enforcement.
Let’s get to today’s headlines.
#10 - Caller makes Stephen A. Smith completely RETHINK who’s really responsible for ICE chaos.
Smith was nearly convinced it was Trump’s fault until Keith from New York raised a “very poignant issue.”
KEITH: “During the prior administrations (Obama, Bush, etc.), there was cooperation with local jurisdictions [to hand people over to ICE].”
SMITH: Keith… I want to applaud you for calling up and bringing up this issue because you brought up a very poignant issue that I haven’t heard one single caller address in weeks about ICE. You spoke to the level of cooperation between the administration and the White House, the federal government, and local and state law enforcement. There was a level of cooperation.”
“The question is, why has that cooperation not existed? And my point is that’s a huge, huge question. Because if the level of cooperation that no longer exists… started in 2016 when Trump came into office… then that means that either Trump is engaging in a whole bunch of stuff that is considered unconstitutional, or the local and state officials in sanctuary cities specifically... are being IMPEDIMENTS to laws being executed and exercised.”
“Right now, we all believe it’s Trump because we see the optics, and it doesn’t look good… However, we’re able to discover that this stuff is being instigated by folks on the left… that’s a DIFFERENT ARGUMENT.”
“I don’t like the fact that local and state governments get the right to usurp federal authorities and just ignore the laws that they want to ignore. I don’t like nor trust Trump and his administration.”
“If we were to find out that a lot of the stuff that’s going on is because it was instigated by the left… And it was aimed specifically for the Trump administration… we’ve got ourselves a PROBLEM.”
#9 – Karoline Leavitt completely steamrolls fake news reporter who called the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good a murderer.
This might be the hardest I’ve ever seen Leavitt come after anyone. A brutal 72-second exchange.
“You’re a left-wing hack, you’re not a reporter. You shouldn’t even be sitting in that seat. You’re pretending like you’re a journalist, but you’re a left-wing activist, and the question that you just raised and your answer proves your bias.”
“Do you have the numbers of how many American citizens were killed at the hands of illegal aliens who ICE is trying to remove from this country? I bet you don’t. I bet you didn’t even read up on those stories.
“I bet you never even read about Laken Riley or Jocelyn Nungaray or all of the innocent Americans who were killed at the hands of illegal aliens in this country.”
“Shame on people like you in the media who have a crooked view and have a biased view and pretend like you’re a real, honest journalist.”
H/T: Benny Johnson
#8 - Conservative commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek reveals she’s been BANNED from traveling to the UK.
She writes:
“No reason given. No right to appeal. Zero due process. Just an email saying the UK government deems me ‘not conducive to the public good’ - exactly three days after I criticized Keir Starmer. I guess my point that the UK is no longer a free country has been indisputably proven.”
#7 - Piers Morgan puts sunglass-wearing liberal IN HIS PLACE as his “regime change” argument against Michael Knowles implodes.
Kyle Kulinski called Knowles a “c*ck” moments earlier. Piers Morgan stepped in and shut him down.
KULINSKI: “Tell me the name of the minister of defense in Venezuela.”
KNOWLES: “I don’t know. Whatever his name is.”
KULINSKI: “Well, and that’s the problem. You’re advocating for a regime change.”
KNOWLES: “I just said the opposite. I argued against a regime change.”
MORGAN: “He actually said the opposite. I heard Michael Knowles. I just want to correct something. I heard Michael Knowles say the regime remains there. Right? So he said the opposite.”
KULINSKI: “He wanted to take out Maduro. Don’t give me that cutesy little (indistinct).”
MORGAN: “Yes, but he made the point of the regime. The regime is still there. And the vice president appears to be much more compliant with running Venezuela the way America would prefer for its national security than Maduro. So that’s what Michael said. He didn’t advocate regime change.”
KULINSKI: “Kidnapping the president is not regime change?”
After hogging all the airtime, Piers Morgan pumped the brakes on Kulinski, saying, “Hang on. Coleman hasn’t said a word yet,” and moved on.
#6 - Resurfaced video uncovers Bernie Sanders saying open borders would “make everyone in America poorer.”
"Open borders? That's a Koch brothers proposal which essentially says there is no United States... It would make everyone in America poorer... Right-wing people would love an open border to bring in all kinds of people to work for $2 to $3 an hour."
- Bernie Sanders 2015
Credit: Kanekoathegreat
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#5 - Karoline Leavitt confirms any and all leakers under President Trump will be caught, tracked down, and locked up.
A Pentagon leaker has been jailed, and a Washington Post reporter’s house was raided.
“Legal action will be taken against anyone, including members of the press or federal employees, if you break the law and endanger our men and women in uniform!”
Credit: Eric Daugherty
#3 - Doctor Stumbles All Over Herself When Asked If Men Can Get Pregnant
#2 - Tim Walz’s Stream Was Such a Dumpster Fire It Was Deleted From YouTube
#1 - Nick Shirley releases his second video exposing more than $16 million in Somali welfare fraud.
Nick Shirley and David walked into a Somali “transportation company” which receives millions of dollars of state taxpayer money only to find out it is actually a money wiring business.
“This is fraud! This is supposed to be Safari Transportation,” Nick Shirley said.
BONUS #1 - ACLU and Celebs Release CRINGE Appeal to Allow MEN in Women’s Sports
BONUS #2 - The Egg Label Trap: What “Cage-Free” and “Pasture-Raised” Really Mean
BONUS #3 - This Is What Happens When You Stop Taking Ozempic
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There is something way bigger going on when you can divide everyone in the entire world into an 'us vs them' mentality on almost every single subject.. We cannot let them get away with these ridiculous ancient divide and conquer tactics...
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He as a manslaughter-er or murderer. One or the other.
Am a conservative but will not BLINDLY follow the narrative of the Right on this.
She is turning away, he is out of the way, leans over the hood to blow her face off.
THREE friggin' shots!
Calls her a bitch. Guy has an attitude problem.
Not his first encounter. Flagrant to protocol. Tragedy waiting to happen. It did.
He should have a desk job.
To think she wanted to run him over and murder him - which is the prevailing narrative - is ridiculous.
The question now, is whether this ICE goonhead gets charged for manslaughter or murder.
Am a conservative but will not BLINDLY follow the narrative of the Right on this.
She is turning away, he is out of the way, leans over the hood to blow her face off.
Calls her a bitch. Guy has an attitude problem.
Not his first encounter. Flagrant to protocol. Tragedy waiting to happen. It did.
This is not the job for him. He should have a desk job.
To think she wanted to run him over and murder him - which is the prevailing narrative - is ridiculous.
The question now, is whether this ICE goonhead gets charged for manslaughter or murder.
>The legality of them trying to stop her in the first place, and. just what is ICE's is legal authority?
"By: Adam Miller
"It is clear that US citizens' ignorance of federal laws and law enforcement duties, procedures, and limits of authority is getting to the point where it is deadly. I spent probably 3 hours watching and re-watching, and finding every single video and angle I could of the situation in Minnesota yesterday and came to one immovable conclusion based off of what I saw and what I know from a professional standpoint. This is long, but please give it a read.
"As a former officer, let me make something clear: ICE agents ARE NOT police officers, deputy sheriffs, or troopers. They are not local/state law enforcement. They are not federal criminal law enforcement. They have an INCREDIBLY limited scope of authority, and that scope of authority exists in detaining and arresting with probable cause and/or SIGNED WARRANTS those investigated and suspected of being in the US illegally.
"They cannot just pull anyone over for a traffic violation or because their car is in a place they don't want it. They have NO authority to pull people over for ANYTHING other than immigration enforcement- and even then that involves probable cause, such as a known vehicle of someone they have been tracking, or a warrant.
On very rare occasions they have the legal authority to pull someone over if they are threatening the lives of others, but that was not happening in this case. They do not have the training nor the authority to pull ANYONE else over. They cannot arrest legal citizens. They cannot detain legal citizens without probable cause to believe they might not be legal. They have ZERO authority to be attempting to force entry into a vehicle- without even identifying themselves, without a warrant, without exigent circumstances such as a life being directly threatened- that is trying to drive down the street without probable cause in relation to IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT.
"This ENTIRE situation in Minnesota was outside of the scope of legal authority from the get go. None of it was done within the scope of authority of ICE. Every single behavior those agents made was procedurally incorrect, done without proper authority, and was based off of intimidation and the assumption that people do not understand the law and their rights in regards to interactions with ICE.
"On no planet should an officer, agent, or any human being ever step in front of a car in 'drive' that is actively trying to leave and use their body as a shield to prevent a person from LEGALLY LEAVING a situation in which they are not legally being detained. It takes maybe a week of any kind of actual law enforcement training to understand that under NO CIRCUMSTANCES do you ever place yourself in front of a vehicle in 'drive.' That agent had every single opportunity to simply take two steps to the right and not be standing directly in front of a vehicle attempting to conduct their legal right to drive away.
"You can see the wheels are turned, [Renee] backed up and turned them to the right, moved forward a bit to leave, couldn't because an agent was standing in front of her, and continued to try to leave by TURNING HER WHEELS TO THE RIGHT and moving forward. He continually chose to stand there and not allow her to legally leave as she had every single right to do.
The officer pulling on her door and banging on her window and swearing at her had ZERO authority to order her out of her vehicle or attempt to make entry into her vehicle. NONE. A single day of actual training of the legal scope of authority and the LAW would've prevented that from happening.
"You now have a frightened citizen being blockaded by immigration agents (with another person in her vehicle) who had zero obligation to follow legally invalid orders from that agent, being blocked in and having a fully grown, masked man attempting to make entry into her car. If this were reversed, every single person would immediately feel she had every reasonable expectation to fear for her safety. It doesn't matter if she knew it was ICE because the agents weren't even acting in their scope of authority anyway.
"Whether or not she made the right decision by very CLEARLY- based off of how hard her wheels were turned and how low and to the driver corner windshield that shot was fired- trying to drive to the left of that agent is IRRELEVANT in the picture as a whole.
None of this would have happened if those agents had done even one single thing correctly. Not just correctly, but within their legal scope of authority.
Every single moment of that interaction was escalated by untrained, unprofessional, procedurally inept "agents" who not only had zero control of themselves but everything around them. And not because they are helpless, but because their actions that did not fall under their scope of power CAUSED this.
Their tempers, lack of training, and the knowledge that they can get away with violating their own scope of authority caused this.
"I will always be the first to defend law enforcement when lethal force very clearly is required. But this was not even remotely the case, and as an actual TRAINED professional in that field with experience and understanding of both the law and procedures, there is no justification for this- and it would benefit EVERYONE to actually read up on the laws, scope of authority, and use a single shred of common sense to see that this situation was started, escalated, and caused by the ICE agents involved. I have zero respect for those in power who are ignorant of the scope of their authority and abuse it at the cost of lives around them.""